News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Leeland Eisenberg, of Concord, New Hampshire, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for bank robbery and separately sentenced to five years of probation for possessing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Jose Manuel Sanchez-Zapien (Sanchez), 37, a native and citizen of Michoacán, Mexico, residing in Dos Palos, charging him with conspiring to manufacture marijuana and damaging public lands and natural resources, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston with a federal immigration crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Newport Beach man who orchestrated a wide-reaching conspiracy that smuggled, manufactured and distributed millions of dollars worth of analogue drugs which were used, among other things, to manufacture synthetic marijuana has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Republican majority on the Natural Resources Committee openly embraced the Trump administration’s extremist budget proposal for the Department of the Interior (DOI) at this morning’s just-concluded hearing - a proposal Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke repeatedly assured the Committee is “balanced" despite the overall Trump budget having been dismissed by outside observers as a “hilarious accounting fraud" (Slate) and “a $2 trillion mystery" (CNBC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Virginia Man Arrested and Charged With Espionage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a U.S. Postal employee pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing mail.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation will increase flows from Lucky Peak Dam by 500 cubic feet per second (cfs) on Thursday, June 22, 2017, at 8 am. The Boise River reservoir system continues to be in active flood control operations in this unusually high water year. Flood-risk-management operations are expected to continue for the next couple of weeks.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today advanced five bills to the full committee for consideration that seek to modernize the nation’s energy infrastructure and promote energy security.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) finalization of three new rules required under the new Toxic Substances Control Act that was enacted one year ago today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Colette Arne, 66, of Lockport, NY, with distribution of oxymorphone and maintaining a drug-involved premises. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to participating in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme that filed fraudulent federal income tax returns claiming hundreds of thousands of dollars in refunds.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WALNUT GROVE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will open the Delta Cross Channel Gates Friday, June 23, 2017, at approximately 9 a.m. The gates will remain open until further notice. Please be advised that the decision to open or close the gates can be made on short notice based on requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney David Leshner (619) 546-7921.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on June 21, 2017, a federal jury convicted Kalolo Nathaniel Iu, 28, Mandaree, ND, on charges of Sexual Abuse and Attempted Tampering with a Witness.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor, on the need to confirm Kristine Svinicki to continue serving as a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Svinicki was designated as the NRC chair in January, and will remain in that role following her confirmation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Dante Rhodes, age 41, and Gregory Stapleton, age 31, both from Dubuque, Iowa, have been charged with two counts related to a March 2017 bank robbery. The charges are contained in an Indictment filed on June 21, 2017, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids. Rhodes and Stapleton were initially charged in a Criminal Complaint filed in federal court on May 22, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) finalization of three new rules required under the new Toxic Substances Control Act that was enacted one year ago today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Agreed to pay $36,239 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston felon who illegally possessed guns while on federal supervised release was sentenced to prison today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Damian Means, 29, previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. In today’s hearing, he was sentenced...
